RazorICE

Shoo, friends who have discovered I have a many year old account. Go creep elsewhere.

(Success! 3 Years Without a Journal Entry milestone achieved!)

This is a status update to update my status.
In case anyone wanted to know, I'm still here. If you didn't want to know, ignore this.

Oh, I made the winning entry (read: only entry) for the cover of the school magazine.
It is quite lame, though. It's pretty much a portrait of the school, at night. hannahbull said it needed more aliens so I added the Independence Day ship with bonus explosion.

Anyway, since it didn't really fit with anything to do with this year, I decided to change it, on awesome hilarious suggestion by Fithakk. I will be uploading the new cover here soon (though chances are the real magazine cover will be using the lame Independence Day one... oh well). Anyway, again thanks to Fithakk for hilarious idea.

Update: Here ye go. razorice.deviantart.com/art/En…

Update 2: I am ridiculously thin. Must gain more fat.

So, just a quick update on stuff:

* Recently turned 17. Still young compared to my friends
* 10000 page views! About time. I've been here far too long
* Well on track for Uni, expecting a 95+ UAI (courses I want to do require 85+ and 92+) so I'll finish applying for them soon.
* The title for this journal is not random (and you can probably figure it out quite easily).

And a quick time-waster for anyone who feels like it (in other words, you are all tagged):
(Stolen from Calco, who was tagged by Fithakk, who was tagged by mainsprite, and it may or may not go further back)

Basically, answer the following questions with song titles from a specific band you have chosen. In my case, Nine Inch Nails.

1. Are you male or female?
Me, I'm Not
2. Describe yourself.
Just Like You Imagined
3. What do people feel when they're around you?
Help Me I Am In Hell
4. How would you describe your previous relationship?
I Do Not Want This
5. Describe your current relationship.
All The Love In The World
6. Where would you want to be now?
Adrift and At Peace
7. How do you feel about love?
Purest Feeling
8. What's your life like?
Somewhat Damaged
9. What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
Something I Can Never Have
10. Say something wise.
We're In This Together

Okay, so I recently got an email from someone asking me about how to add my brush pack to favourites (as I request it be added to favourites if people download it... 50,000 downloads and 900 favourites leads me to believe that people don't really care or know how to. Whatever.)

Anyway, the person also congratulated me for being featured in a "Photoshop Elements Techniques" magazine (or even, a "newsletter" of some kind). So, I asked for more information about that.

Turns out, get this, Adobe, the makers of Photoshop, referenced my brushes in one of their articles (something about making grunge backgrounds?) for this magazine (which requires something like $50/year subscription).

Holy friggin crap. Talk about awesome.

Anyway, as it is a subscriber only magazine, I am unable to get a hold of the article to check on its validity, however the person who emailed me also offered to send me a photocopy of the article! (snail mail) I declined as it'd be too much hassle for them, but now I want to see.

So if anyone knows anyone who knows anyone who subscribes to "Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques" (Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques) and/or happens to have a copy of the latest issue, I would very much like to see a scanned copy of the article!

Woo

Update: After a bit of poking around, it looks like it might not be an "official" Adobe magazine, however they are at least sponsored by Adobe so it's still cool.

Edit: Now I've creeped over 9000

Firstly, this journal is long. If you have the time and patience for it, feel free to read it.

But secondly, a limerick! (cause I was bored)
It has been 2 years since my last,
Remember my art, in the past?
This journal will measure,
At your own displeasure,
My page views: I'm still unsurpassed.

I probably should have left it until I reached (a power level of) OVER 9000, but I couldn't resist. And although I am beating everyone I know personally in real life (only in page views!! They mean nothing, calm down! 9000 is nothing anyway, considering I've been here since... 2004? Anyway, who's counting? ), there are many valid reasons for doing so. They are, from least supported and logical statement to most:

Fact a) Everybody loves Photoshop.
Fact b) Everybody loves Photoshop brushes.
Fact c) I made some Photoshop brush packs.

It then follows that (and ignore the programming format):

IF everybody loves photoshop brushes, AND I made some photoshop brushes, THEN
Either everybody loves me, or everybody loves my brushes.

It turns out it's the latter.

So. The moral of this journal is this: all of you who (still) visit me, time after time, to hear my ramblings and hope to catch glimpse of yet another mediocre piece of work and then act disappointed and comment on the lack of the aforementioned "art," I have one thing to ask of you:

Visit the galleries of those who I watch and those who watch me. Most, if not all of them, deserve far more recognition than I. All I ever did was make a (surprisingly popular) brush pack and a couple of circles with blurred "atmospheres" and white noise on a black background. Plus, they probably all update more often than I do. So please, if you're still with me, you have already taken the time to waste your life reading this, why not spend half an hour more just visiting these people's galleries? And who knows, maybe you'll find love? (For art or for a person, who knows )

Of course, this could all be shameless self promotion on my part. Or maybe I felt like writing something of great importance (cough) to make myself feel better, not that I feel bad in any way (Lady Life treats me well... unlike that more popular whore, "Lady Luck").

But really, please take the time to have a quick look at the following group of people. Don't see them just for their art, however, but for who they are.

Personal friends:


People I admire and/or am acquaintances with:


Anyway, I'm off to bed. My midnight ramble is finished.